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B. B. HOLMES.

' BLOTTER TABLE-T.

N,o. 250,3-27. Patented Nov. 29,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT B. HOLMES, OF YVATERTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN STERLING ROBINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

BLOTTER-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 250,327, dated November 29, 1881.

Application filed August 12, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1', ROBERT B. HoLMEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Watertown, in the county of Jefferson and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Blotter Tablets,of which the following is a specification.

I have improved the blotter writing-tablet in which the sheets are cemented to the cover hinge-strip so as to be easily separated when used. I provide for the attachment ofthe blotter to the inner side of the cover, and thus protect it and keep it from being torn or bent or turning up at the edges. I use the flexible hinge-strip of the covers as the means of attachment for the blotter by shortening the top cover, so as to form a hinge for the blotter along the line of the cemented edges of the sheets, so as not to hinder their detachment. The top cover and the blotter, having separate hingejoints or lines, are cemented to the same hinge-strip to which the sheets are cemented, so that the blotter can be used independent of the cover when the latter is open, and, in fact, the blotter forms the hinge-line of the top cover, because its line of attachment is between the edge of the top cover and the line of attachment of the sheets.

The drawings represent, in Figure 1, the tablet with the top cover and blotter open; in Fig. 2, a section showing the top cover open upon its hinge, and the blotter by its separate hinge in flat position upon the tablet; and in Fig. 3 a partial section, showing the top cover and the blotters partly open upon their separate hingelines.

The tablet or memorandum sheets are secured by cement or otherwise to the flexible strip a, which forms the hinge-joints for the covers I). To provide for a separate hinge-joint for the blotter c, I shorten the top cover, I), so that its edge I) does not form the hinge-line with the cemented edges of the sheets, as in tablets of this kind in use, and thereby obtain a free flexible surface for the attachment of the blotter to the hinge-stri p at apoint between the top-cover edge and the line of attachment of the sheets, so that the top cover and the blotter have practically separate hinge-joints upon the same cover hinge-strip. The line of attachmentfor the blotter forms the hinge-joint for the cover, so that when the coverisopen the blotter can be used independent of the cover, notwithstandingits hinge-joint extends the full width of the cover and parallel with the hingejoint thereof.

In cementing the blotter care must be taken not to join it with the edge I) of the top cover, for that would destroy the separate hinge functions of the cover and the blotter. In this Way I use a blotter protected by the cover, and as securely attached as the cover, and use the hinge-strip ot' the latteras the meansofforming a separate and distinct hinge for the blotter.

Additional blotters can be attached, each having a separate hinge, by shortening the cover I), so as to expose additional surface of the flexible hinge-strip between itsline of attachment with the cover and the line of joining of the sheets with said hinge-strip, as shown in partial section of a tablet with the (30"61' and two separately-hinged blotters mounted upon the cover-hinge, in which case the hinge-joint proper of the cover will be formed by the inside blotter. This provision for increasing the blotting-surface is especially important in tablets having a large number of sheets, and the removal of the inner blotter is made by cutting it at the hinge-line, leaving the hinge-line ot the fresh blotter to form the hinge proper of the cover. For ordinary tablets, however, a single blotter will last until the sheets are exhausted'.

I claim A writing or memorandum tablet having its top cover and one or more blotters mounted upon separate hinge-lines of the cover hingestrip, the said blotter forming the hinge-line proper of the cover and protected thereby, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT -B. HOLMES.

Witnesses:

J. T. RAPLEE, F. M. BINGHAM. 

